Why, oh god, do some people (mostly men) think it's ok to whistle tunelessly in public?!

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I am on a train (and about to get off it, so may abandon this if there's no wifi).

But why? Why oh why? It is tuneless and irritating and so fucking antisocial.

They cannot imagine it is pleasant.

They wouldn't randomly start singing or dancing, so why this?

And should I get over myself?

Share with me your irrational public transport irritations.

I have pondered this exact question many times. If your child was doing it you'd tell them to stop, because it would be annoying other people. I honestly wonder if they realise they're doing it.

Yanbu, this and eating some smelly food is very inconsiderate.

There is a text tone that is a tuneless whistling noise and it pisses me right off.

I don't mind cheery whistling, actually, I quite like it. I would probably join in and annoy everyone.

I hate loud crunching, an annoying looking Bloke crunched his way through a bag of boiled sweets one train journey, and it was a long journey - the cunt. He finished one packet and I sighed a huge sigh of relief, then he pulled out another from his inside pocket.
He also picked his nose, rolled it around a bit then wiped it on his trousers, which could have been worse I suppose.
I am still irrationally annoyed with him now, it was 5 years ago.

I have the text tone, it's not annoying it's cheery damn it.

I agree, and can anyone shed any light on that horrible thing some of them do when you are in front of them, and they start with the weird whistling sounds?

I find it cheery!worried people dont whistle so I just suppose to myself that they must have a reason to be happy. Which is nice.

I think that they don't think it's tuneless.

I think that in their head, it's a brilliant tune.

If you recorded it and played it back, I don't think they'd recognise it.

DH does this and it's so annoying. My tinnitus is more tuneful than his inane whistling.

Yanbu, I can't stand this - it's like nails going downn a blackboard. Am shuddering just thinking about it.

I whistle when I'm doing the food shop, a couple of times men have joined in when they recognise what I'm whistling , it's kind of a habit and I don't always realise I'm doing it.

Do you mean can't whistle at all, or can't make a tune, Derek?

I can't whistle at all. I just blow air though.

Oddly, I can make a whistling noise by having my lips in that same position and sharply sucking air in, but I can't do anything but blow a candle out if I try to whistle a tune

my bug bear is when men fondle themselves in public, sit with legs akimbo on public transport too and want everyone to admire their 'manhood'.

yy to the nosepicking and stuff (from men and women)

and why do men wait till they come out of the main door of public loos before they pull their flies up?

My OH will suddenly start clicking his fingers and thumbs together about a dozen times. If he has a pen in his hand, that gets tapped too. It drives me up the wall. That and his nail-biting/sucking/chewing. Think I'm hormonal.

My ex would be watching something on tv, and if he found it funny he would suddenly clap ONCE really loudly - which when you're not watching, and concentrating on the book you're reading, really,really makes you jump. Most people would just laugh at something funny but no, he had to clap.

That would drive me batty. Seals clap. You should have chucked a fish at him.

I hate whistling, a guy in our street did it all the time. I used to get really tense at about 5pm knowing he'd be on his way past whistling! Also the leg spreaders, why? Is it 'oh look at my massive balls I can't close my legs around!' I got stuck on a train crammed in cos some moron had his legs spread wider than the Grand Canyon and I didn't want my leg rubbing against his so had to cram myself as far into the corner if the seat as I could!

Oh, yes.

Load eating and I-have-massive-balls spread legs are also pet hates.

I once had a bloke utterly gobsmacked I didn't want to move my arm of 'his' armrest (ie., the central one).

They're getting their own back for not being able to wolf whistle any more

I love whistling. It's a dying art. The tuneless wheezy whistlers need more encouragement, to build up to the full-on vibrato up-a-ladder-whistling-operas thing. They're always up a ladder, the best whistlers.

Also, if you're whistling on a train, you (probably) can't be sniffing.

That is true, phal. God save us from the sniffers.

dh whistling now but doubt if he would do it in public.

I had a man sit opposite me, next to his wife, with his legs spread apart and his hands actually resting on his balls.